New Books in Technology
Interviews with Scholars of Technology about their New Books
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- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 1013
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Roma Agrawal, "Nuts and Bolts: Seven Small Inventions That Changed the World (in a Big Way)" (Norton, 2023)
Smartphones, skyscrapers, spacecraft. Modern technology seems mind-bogglingly complex. But beneath the surface, it can be beautifully simple.
In Nuts & Bolts: Seven Small Inventions that Changed the …
00:43:48 |
Sat 19 Aug 2023
Academic Publishers Grapple with Advances in AI
Niko Pfund joins the podcast to discuss the value of scientific content for building out Large Language Models and some of the challenges around tracking the quality and ownership of aggregated conte…
00:44:28 |
Sat 19 Aug 2023
Codename Revolution: The Nintendo Wii Platform
The Nintendo Wii, introduced in 2006, helped usher in a moment of retro-reinvention in video game play. This hugely popular console system, codenamed Revolution during development, signaled a turn aw…
00:20:33 |
Fri 18 Aug 2023
The Digital Mind: How Science Is Redefining Humanity
What do computers, cells, and brains have in common? Computers are electronic devices designed by humans; cells are biological entities crafted by evolution; brains are the containers and creators of…
00:17:08 |
Thu 17 Aug 2023
Jieun Kiaer, "Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media (Bloomsbury, 2023) by Dr. Jieun Kiaer provides an in-depth discussion of emoji use in a global context, this volume presents the use of emoji…
00:39:12 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Scott Skinner-Thompson, "Privacy at the Margins" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
Limited legal protections for privacy leave minority communities vulnerable to concrete injuries and violence when their information is exposed. In Privacy at the Margins (Cambridge UP, 2021), Scott …
00:22:20 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga
Long ago, in 1985, personal computers came in two general categories: the friendly, childish game machine used for fun (exemplified by Atari and Commodore products); and the boring, beige adult box u…
00:18:27 |
Wed 16 Aug 2023
Networked: The New Social Operating System
Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and …
00:16:31 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Hello Avatar: Rise of the Networked Generation
Hello Avatar Or, {llSay(0, Hello, Avatar ); is a tiny piece of user-friendly code that allows us to program our virtual selves. In Hello Avatar, B. Coleman examines a crucial aspect of our cultural s…
00:17:35 |
Mon 14 Aug 2023
The Future of Underground/Sea Cables: A Discussion with Henry Farrell
How much of US power is underground? We hear a lot about the US military assets used on land, on the sea, and in the air - but not much about what’s going on underground and on the sea bed. It turns …
00:49:39 |
Sat 12 Aug 2023
Satsuki Takahashi, "Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Both before and after the 2011 "Triple Disaster" of earthquake, tidal wave, and consequent meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, anthropologist Satsuki Takahashi visited nearby commu…
00:53:01 |
Sat 12 Aug 2023
Idolatry and Idle Hands (with Jacob Howland)
Philosophy professor Jacob Howland applies the lessons of Greek classics and Jewish scripture to this our curious moment at the inception of Artificial intelligence when computers are doing more and …
01:09:00 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, "How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms" (Norton, 2023)
From facial recognition―capable of checking people into flights or identifying undocumented residents―to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves …
00:43:26 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their platforms after you delete your account has nothing …
00:40:32 |
Wed 09 Aug 2023
Driving While Black: African Americans and the Automobile
Gretchen Sorin, Director and Distinguished Professor of the Cooperstown Graduate Program at the State University of New York - Oneonta, talks about her book, Driving While Black: African American Tra…
00:40:16 |
Mon 07 Aug 2023
The Art of Failure: An Essay on the Pain of Playing Video Games
We may think of video games as being "fun," but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play video games, our facial expressions are rarely those of h…
00:15:39 |
Sun 06 Aug 2023
The Future of Space Travel: A Discussion with Douglas C. Ligor
The expansion of space travel is much discussed but always seems subject to delay. Why is that and when will it happen on a much larger scale? Douglas Ligor has been considering that issue for the Ra…
00:39:32 |
Sat 05 Aug 2023
Robot Futures
With robots, we are inventing a new species that is part material and part digital. The ambition of modern robotics goes beyond copying humans, beyond the effort to make walking, talking androids tha…
00:14:57 |
Fri 04 Aug 2023
Spam: A Shadow History of the Internet
The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to sen…
00:20:36 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Moving Innovation: A History of Computer Animation
Computer graphics (or CG) has changed the way we experience the art of moving images. Computer graphics is the difference between Steamboat Willie and Buzz Lightyear, between ping pong and PONG. It b…
00:18:20 |
Wed 02 Aug 2023
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